posting to gmane hangs indefinitely until abort & repost

I have some trouble posting to news.gmane.org using slrn. The actualy
posting often hangs and I have to abort and choose Repost at the prompt.
It is then processed quickly, without hanging.

I get the feeling that there is some network connection that has timed
out (while I was writing the article?), and which isn't properly renewed
until the repost (retry) is done. That's a wild guess.

I have never used slrn before, or with another news server. Version is
1.0.1.

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Translation problem?

Hello, old friends!

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slrn pre1.0.2-8
	* Note: This version is a developer preview.
S-Lang Library Version: 2.2.4
Compiled on: Mar 27 2013 00:13:10
Operating System: Linux

COMPILE TIME OPTIONS:
  Backends: +nntp -slrnpull -spool
  External programs / libs: -canlock -inews -ssl -uudeview +iconv
  Features: +decoding +emphasized_text +end_of_thread +fake_refs +gen_msgid
     -grouplens -msgid_cache +piping +rnlock +spoilers -strict_from
  Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.

DEFAULTS:
  Default server object:     nntp

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During "make install" the script seems to be looking for a translation 
that hasn't been created by "make".

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/pjr/slrn/po'
: --update be.po slrn.pot
rm -f be.gmo && : -c --statistics -o be.gmo be.po
mv: cannot stat `t-be.gmo': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [be.gmo] Error 1

downloading more headers from article mode

hi all,
i'm using "set query_read_group_cutoff -250" so that i don't have to
download a huge batch of headers all at once (which i probably do't
need) but sometimes i have unread articles that are beyond the 250
most recent articles. is it possible (maybe with a script) to download
even more aritcle headers from inside article mode?
thanks.

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Segmentation fault with mime.sl

Hi,

I get a segmentation fault when running slrn with the mime.sl
that is included in the slrn archive. This happens with both
1.0.1 and the latest git version. Below is the output from gdb.
Without interpreting mime.sl there is no problem.

  ~/ % gdb slrn                       
  GNU gdb (GDB) 7.4.1-debian
  Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
  and "show warranty" for details.
  This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu".
  For bug reporting instructions, please see:
  <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
  Reading symbols from /usr/local/bin/slrn...done.
  (gdb) run -n -h news.gmane.org
  Starting program: /usr/local/bin/slrn -n -h news.gmane.org
  slrn pre1.0.2-6

  Loading /usr/local/stow/slrn/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
  Læser opstartsfil /home/mojo/.slrnrc.
  Loading /usr/local/stow/slrn/share/slrn/slang/mime.sl
  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0xb7da2b0a in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
  (gdb) 

Morten

Re: Thanks for

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 19:36 +0100, Thomas Wiegner wrote:
> You're welcome. But I think John is right, since quite a while slrn
> supports mime without my patch. That's the reason why it's now
> pretty old.
> 
> Although I think, that a lot distributions still ship with an old
> not mime ready version of slrn.

This is Fedora (well actually this is a development version of RHEL, but
I use slrn from the Fedora packages) so we have the bleeding edge
here ... particularly
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=921

However, it seems to me that your patch can work with Q-P encoded
messages just fine, whereas plain slrn (1.0.1) doesn't (see
http://mcepl.fedorapeople.org/tmp/slrn-QP-mess.png).

Matěj

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Thanks for

Thank you, Thomas Wiegner, for minimal_multipart_pre1.0.0-17 patch which
fixed my problems with Q-E emails.

Matěj
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Rewrite / update Windows slrn page...

I have spent a little too much time rewriting and updating a page
devoted to compiling, installing and running slrn on Windows:

Compiling the git slrn under Windows 8
http://www.andrews-corner.org/slrn-windows.html

I would be interested to hear any criticisms and suggestions from the
slrn-users group as to any mistakes I have made or any improvements
that could be made...

Thanks for looking!

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Reading from a maildir

Hello,

I'd love to read mailing lists in slrn's excellent "delete after reading"
paradigm, so I tried to use slrn to read messages from a maildir.
(I do know about Gmane. Unfortunately, it's not the answer to everything, e.g.
closed company-internal emails. ;)

The basic structure (one file per message) is similar to the one used by
slrnpull, so I thought it shouldn't be too far out of reach.

So I copied a maildir into my `spool_root`,
and while it shows up in the group listing (as three groups, due to the cur,
new, and tmp subfolders, but never mind that for now), I cannot enter the group
, since slrn tells me "No unread articles" (even when I give a prefix argument).

It turns out, the filenames used by the MTA are the reason
(they look like this:
"1238693874_1.1813.elzar,U=15,FMD5=e42be6580d0096a1aff2feecb8227077:2,S").
When I rename them to be just numbers (by cutting off everything after the first
dot and removing the _), slrn enters the group without issue for the first time,
but hangs (with 100% CPU usage) when trying to enter the group again.

Now I'm stumped. What would it take to get slrn to read messages from a maildir?

Thanks for your help,
Wolfgang

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Out-dated FSF address

Hello,

while packaging slrn-1.0.1 for Fedora, I discovered various files quotas
postal Free Software Foundation address which is not valid any more. Current
one can be found on <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt>.
Please update license wording to deliver correct address to your users.

-- Petr

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slrn version 1.0 released

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 of the slrn
newsreader.  Detailed information about the newsreader is available
from <http://www.slrn.org>.

The slrn source code may be obtained from

  <http://www.jedsoft.org/slrn/download/>
  <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7768>

While not as big of an event as the ending of the Mayan calendar or
the Winter solstice, today marks a major event for the slrn project.
As many of you know, this release is long overdue.  But the main
reason that I wanted to put out 1.0 is that I still see a number of
people using older, less reliable versions of the newsreader.  As such I
encourage all slrn users to upgrade to the new version so that we can
be on the same page.

The newsreader would not have become what it has without the support
of those that have helped in one way or another with the project.
While some them may no longer be active on Usenet, I would like to take
the opportunity to publically acknowledge a small fraction of them.
These include:

  Michael Elkins
  Matthias Friedrich
  David Gerard
  Howard Goldstein
  Andrew Greer

how to show number of followups in thread

Hi everybody,

first of all a big thank you to John Davis for all his work on slrn.
It's really wonderful.

When I sort messages by thread, there is a number which is
the number of messages in the thread if that is 2 or more
(otherwise the number is suppressed). Is there a way to change
that to (number of messages) minus 1 ? I'd like the number to
represent the number of followups, so the number displayed
would be 1 for 1 followup instead of 2.

Not a big deal, but thanks for any advice.

best,

Robert Dodier

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